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blog.opendns.com is the company blog at blog.opendns.com, writing about security and systems. Since 2008, 44 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “OpenDNS adopts faster and more secure alternative to DNSSEC”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link OpenDNS's blog for explanations of its DNS resolver, DNSCrypt/DNSCurve encryption, and its policy changes such as ending ad redirection, mostly in DNS security and resolver discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- OpenDNS adopts faster and more secure alternative to DNSSEC5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-02-23
- David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-12-03
- No more ads3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-29
- OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim is a good reason)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-03-13
- OpenDNS has released the top 1M domains on the Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-15
- OpenDNS and Cisco2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30
- New Funding for OpenDNS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15
- BGP and the System of Trust That Runs the Internet, Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Not trivially, unfortunately - I didn't save the information at the time and don't seem to be able to find details because it's buried under articles about Google's newer changes to increase the number of ads and the (equally ad-heavy) redirection page for URL typos they were paying OEMs to bundle at one point.[1] Basically, there's too much discussion of other bad practices for me to Bing or Google this one. Sorry.…
Comment linking /2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
on “What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps”Submitted Sony Reveals an Even Bigger Attack on the Internet – the MPAA Is Behind It as a story · 198 points
HN discussionLook at all of the recent acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Cisco_... And look at the strategy playing out: https://blog.opendns.com/2016/07/08/new-integration-anyconne...
Comment linking /2016/07/08/new-integration-anyconnect-offers-off-network-protection-without-new-agents-2/
on “Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees”Submitted No more ads as a story · 188 points
HN discussionOpenDNS -- San Francisco, Vancouver -- visa My team at OpenDNS is hiring. We're building a PaaS to increase the velocity of our engineering teams. It's ambitious. It will leverage all layers of our infrastructure (network, compute, data). Docker plays a big part in the delivery of applications. You'll find Python, Go, C, and node.js throughout the engineering organization. It's a greenfield project, so we have a lot…
Comment linking /2014/05/15/opendns-series-c-funding/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)”Submitted David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS as a story · 77 points
HN discussionRead why OpenDNS does this: http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
Comment linking /2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
on “Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google”Submitted OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim is a good reason) as a story · 67 points
HN discussionI'll do a blog post about this later today for those interested in my perspective on them entering the DNS space. :-) Edit: Here it is: http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
Comment linking /2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
on “Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google”Submitted DNSCrypt release for Linux as a story · 59 points
HN discussiondavidu owns operate OpenDNS which competes with Google DNS. http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
Comment linking /2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
on “Why are you people defending Apple?”Submitted OpenDNS to censor its service in support of anti-SOPA blackout as a story · 54 points
HN discussionhttp://cr.yp.to/talks.html#2009.08.11 Downsides of DNSSEC are pretty well known, actually. If you're worried about security yet still want to use a third-party DNS resolver, might much better off with OpenDNS.com and their DNSCurve client (called DNSCrypt), which encrypts and authenticates all communications. http://blog.opendns.com/2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/ http://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/dnscrypt/
Comment linking /2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
on “DNS.watch – Fast, free and uncensored”Submitted BGP and the System of Trust That Runs the Internet, Part 2 as a story · 51 points
HN discussionYup. The biggest fallout from this won't be that those big sites were down for hours, it will be the millions of computers that redirected to that IP. http://blog.opendns.com/2013/08/27/high-profile-domains-unde...
Comment linking /2013/08/27/high-profile-domains-under-siege/
on “Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility”Submitted OpenDNS Acquires BGPmon as a story · 41 points
HN discussion> When society has reached a point that anybody with internet access can, simply by 'accidentally' going to the wrong website, be exposed to imagery that really is not going to help them be well-adjusted in life, without any safeguards in place, there is something wrong. How accidental is it really? All the major search engines and social networks have some sort of "safe search" filter system. The porn sites submit…
Comment linking /2010/06/23/introducing-familyshield-parental-controls/
on “UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID”Submitted BGP and the System of Trust That Runs the Internet as a story · 27 points
HN discussionOpenDNS on GoogleDNS is worth a read: http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
Comment linking /2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
on “Google Public DNS”Submitted OpenDNS has released the top 1M domains on the Internet as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis is one of the many problems that DNSCurve solves, by setting up encrypted and authenticated connections between you and any DNS servers you decide to trust. http://dnscurve.org/ OpenDNS already supports it: http://blog.opendns.com/2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
Comment linking /2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
on “ISPs Improve Their DNS Hijacking And How To Stop It”Submitted OpenDNS adopts faster and more secure alternative to DNSSEC as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAdvertising-supported nerds using the media to attack each other. The person making this coment about "BS jobs" is the one who started EasyDNS and OpenDNS and tried to compete with the pre-Chrome "Google toolbar" and later Chrome and eventually the "omnibox" for the privilege of injecting ads into the "user experience", and/or collecting data to support ad services. Google, with its control over being "default searc…
Comment linking /2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns
on “VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'”Submitted OpenDNS launches DNSCrypt service as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThats just overly cynical. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic DNSSEC is only signatures for DNS. It provides no secrecy of queries or responses. In light of the current PRISM disaster, DNSSEC does nothing to protect you. I'll copy a snippet from OpenDNS' original announcement [1] here: Our support for DNSCurve doesn’t prevent our adoption of DNSSEC — they are not mutually exclusive. While we have reservations…
Comment linking /2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
on “DNSCrypt: A tool for securing communications between a client and a DNS resolver”Submitted Cisco completes acquisition of OpenDNS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor more, check out "Speed, Security, and Safety through DNS": http://blog.opendns.com/2013/12/11/speed-security-safety-dns...
Comment linking /2013/12/11/speed-security-safety-dns/
on “Redesigning the OpenDNS DNS database for low latency”Submitted OpenDNS and Cisco as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been running CurveDNS ( http://curvedns.on2it.net ) for the last few years for a few externally facing sites. I get about 1-2% of my requests via DNSCurve, almost entirely from OpenDNS, which started supporting it years ago: http://blog.opendns.com/2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/ The problem is mainly in the tooling - there aren't good query and diagnostic tools out there for DNSCurve, beyond fairly complicated CL…
Comment linking /2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
on “DNSSEC surpasses 50% of root domains”Submitted The New Normal – We're All Security Companies Now as a story · 5 points
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